{"id":45,"date":"2007-05-09T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-08-23T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T23:10:08","slug":"a-poem-i-wrote-about-bryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"A poem I wrote about Bryan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Missing You, My Best Friend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those that never knew you,<br \/>\nI hope that I can do some justice to your name,<br \/>\nI am still not sure what to do,<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been three long years, yet I am still the same.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan was a special guy,<br \/>\nOnly around him could I cry,<br \/>\nWhy, oh why, did you have to die?<br \/>\nI am missing you, my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>He loved to go out and have a good time,<br \/>\nShooting pool and listening to music,<br \/>\nMetallica was a favorite of his and mine.<br \/>\nI am missing you, my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>Our favorite hangout, The Vapors,<br \/>\nSpending the weekend listening to the bands,<br \/>\nDrinking beer and having fun.<br \/>\nI am missing you, my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>Loved by all the girls,<br \/>\nAnd he loved them all back,<br \/>\nI could tell that he was always true.<br \/>\nThey are missing you, my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>He was tough for being small,<br \/>\nNever backing down from a fight,<br \/>\nEven though he knew that fighting isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t right.<br \/>\nI am missing you, my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>He loved God and Jesus,<br \/>\nAnd I know they love him back,<br \/>\nAnd in their kingdom, he now rests.<br \/>\nI am missing you, my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>And if he was here today,<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be doing the same,<br \/>\nDrinking beer and playing pool,<br \/>\nListening to the music we love.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting my new friends,<br \/>\nI know he would like them all,<br \/>\nFor he is just that type of guy,<br \/>\nI am missing you, my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>I am not ashamed to say that I loved him,<br \/>\nHe was my best friend and a big part of my world,<br \/>\nEven though he is gone now,<br \/>\nHe is still in my heart, a big part of my world\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n<p>I am missing you, my best friend\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing You, My Best Friend For those that never knew you, I hope that I can do some justice to your name, I am still not sure what to do, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been three long years, yet I am still the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=45\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bryan","category-life","category-writingpoetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}